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“I did gun prosecutions for six years … I bet you there weren’t 10 cases prosecuted nationwide of addicts or unlawful drug users who possessed firearms or lied on applications … why are you pursuing this one?” —Fox News commentator and former Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy, somehow defending … [checks notes] Hunter Biden?

The latter-day GOP holds two truths to be self-evident: that the Department of Justice is out of control, politically motivated, and untrustworthy; and that Hunter Biden is guilty of crimes, many crimes, both wildly broad and specific.

As the Hunter Biden trial begins, though, those self-evident truths are turning out to be a bit crosswise. On one hand, after Donald Trump’s three-dozenish felony convictions, Republicans are more resolute than ever that the justice system is hopelessly politicized, partisan, and illegitimate. At the same time, they are rooting more fervidly than ever for the very same justice system to put away archvillain Hunter Biden on gun charges, for........

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